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      Santa Rosa Craft Beer and Food Take Center Stage

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      Enjoy Cancun-adjacent Isla Mujeres at Coco B Villas

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    A deep-rooted workforce: year-round crews know vines

    Michelle Locke
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    Harvest is a few weeks away in the Napa Valley and Alberto Ramos is combing through a block of Cabernet Franc, on the hunt for unripe grapes. Sunshine settles into the 90-acre bowl-shaped vineyard as he runs practiced fingers over the clusters, flicking green and pink berries to a dusty death.

    Winds blow South African terroir in the white direction

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    South Africa makes 4.2% of the world's wine. But in the U.S., its wine world is a dark continent. You see some under-$10 South African wines, but I have never seen a South African wine over $30 in a California restaurant. I'm not sure I've seen one in a store,

    Complexity to a fault: enjoying microbial diversity

    Simon J Woolf
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    Brettanomyces and volatile acidity – these are a few of my favorite things. No really – in the past month I've enjoyed both a wine and a beer that managed a perfect fusion of the two. Let me explain, lest you think I've gone clean out of my senses from

    How fair is fair trade wine?

    Erika Szymanski
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    Even if you don't shop at Whole Foods, even if you don't drink coffee, you've probably heard of Fair Trade. The program (programs, really; fair trade certifications are issued by a handful of agencies) rose up in the 1960's, but really gained steam in the 1980's as an upmarket-focused movement

    Three generations and 63 years later, not much has changed at Napa’s Stony Hill

    Roger Morris
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    It is tempting to think of Stony Hill Vineyard as this lovely flower growing on the flank of Napa Valley’s Spring Mountain, a flower that has miraculously flourished, largely unchanged, since it was planted in 1952. Such unchanging longevity is not a routine occurrence.  While Napa Valley may be a

    Protecting Cornas

    Evan Dawson
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    The Vintners of this Northern Rhône Appellation Fear the Kind of Development that Could Threaten its Vineyards The last thing you notice is the quiet. The first thing you notice is the hillside of vines diving below you. You’re surprised. This is Chablis, not Côte-Rôtie. The hills are supposed to

    Old and new technologies collide to unlock the secrets of Amarone

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    If you were asked to name three or four Italian wines that are the most highly respected all over the world, I bet most of you would include Amarone della Valpolicella. This red wine made with dried grapes has been appreciated by wine lovers forever, but its popularity has shot up

    “Unprecedented development rate” leads to ripe, early harvest in southern Champagne

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    The unique terroir of the Côtes des Bar expresses itself well in this vintage. The 2015 harvest has drawn to a close in Champagne and overall everybody is very happy with the results. The hot summer boosted the ripeness levels, and in the end brought forward the harvest dates by
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